The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-09-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A flre at Delray, MICH, on Monday, NC
stroyed property to the value of s25o,OoO
{ The president has appointed Chas. 0
Stockslager receiver of public moneys
HALEY, Idaho.
Mrs. Mary Yearly died at Newark
Ohio, Tuesday, aged 1O5 years. She wa
born in Maryland in 1882.
The extensive bridge works of Morse
Bros, at Youngstown, Ohio, were con
sumed by fire Monday entailing loss o
100000.
The plant, franchise and business of the
Baltimore & Ohio express has been sole
to the United States company for perioo
of thirty years.
The Kabbadish tribe have defeated the
Dervlshes in the Bagara country, killing
1900. The Abyssians are moving against
the Dervishes via Seminar.
A Los Angeles special reports that Gen
Nelson A. Miles was thrown from tally
ho coach near there Tuesday and had his
right leg broken at the ankle.
A Chinaman named Chow Lam sbo1
and killed Chicago policeman Tuesday
named Phil Foote. Foote opened the fire
and the Chlnaman returned 1t with two
fatal shots.
It is announced that T. V. Powderly
general grand master workman OF the
Knights of Labor, will proceed to Ireland
in October to take part in the national
movement.
Prof. Brooks of Philadelphia says the
new comet recently discovered by him is
now in constellation Cancer, near the stal
Iota, and is moving one degree daily
towards the sun.
jefferson Davis has accepted an invita-
ton to attend the state fair in Macon,
Georgia, on October Goth. On that day
there will be reunion of all surviving
ex-confederate soldiers.
Timothy Coughlin, section foreman OF
the Toledo, Peoria & Western, who was
held responsible for the wreck at Chats
worth, ILL.,, by which nearly hundred
lives were lost, has been admitted to bail
in the sum of $1,000.
Frank G. McNellly, aged 10 years and
a clerk in the Saco & Biddleford Savings
bank of Saco, Maine, has absconded with
So, 500 in cash, U. S. bonds to the amount
Of 1856, 900 and other bonds am mounting
to about $91, 900. Canada claims him.
The total coinage executed at the mints
of the United States during the month OF
August was 9,2S2.00O pieces, of the value
of $2,3O3,3OO. Of this amount 100000
were half eagles, $2,97O,000 standard sill
yer dollars, $l95,O00 dimes, and $18,3OC
half dimes.
1t is reported that fresh attempt to Kill
the car has been made A nihllist, dis
guised as an officer of the guards, ap.
preached the imperial carriage on a jour
ney from St. Petersburg to Krasnoeselo
and fired a revolver twice. The first shot
missed the czar, but the second shot per.
forated his coat.
Acting postmaster general Stevens ane
Viscount Dos Nogueros, the Portuges'
minister. have exchanged ratiiications O
the additional postal convention between
Portugal and the United States. The
convention modlfies the system OF keep
ing money order accounts and goes int
effect October !, next
Michael Butler, recently discharged
from the position of keeper in the insane
asvlum on Wards Island has petitione(
the supreme court for the release OF
number of the patients as sane. He dc
clares that out of 1850 inmates no les
than 800 are perfectly sane, and tha
1000 others are entirely harmless lunatlcs
Thomas S. Baldwin, the San Francisco
aeronaut, repeated his feat Of jumping
from balloon there Monday afternoon
When 1000 feet high he made the leap
His parachute remained closed for the frs
800 feet and he descended at fearful
rate of speed. Then the parachute open
ed and he sailed down easily, droppln!
into the ocean, from which he was picke'
up unhurt.
Chief Colorow and detachment of tn
Colorado state militia engaged in figh
last Thursday in which there were fiv
whites killed and four wounded and seve
Indians and two squaws killed and fiv
wounded. Three hundred Indian ponie
were captured by the whites. Coloro1
and his band have since retired to tn
Ouray agency and are desirous that ther
be no more fighting.
Members of the Grand Army who pal
ticlpated in the demonstration in Whee
ing, w. Va, last Friday refused to pas
under a portrait of President Clevelan
suspended from the Register office. Tn
entire column made detour and droope
their colors in passing the picture. Til
action caused considerable excitement i
the CITY. There were over 5000 veteran
in line from western Pennsylvania an
West Virginia.
At Spokane Falls Wednesday nigh
about 10 80 o'clock, while the sky VIZ
| overcast with heavy clouds and ligl
rain was falling, meteor was seen by
number of people to shoot from til
heavens directly overhead. It struck tn
| electric light wires on the south side
| Main street, between Howard and Mi
streets, in the very heart of the city, Gu
ting one of the wires in two and burstin
into thousand fragments. To those wh
saw the strange phenomenon when
struck. the ball of fire seemed to be te
feet in diameter.
| C. A. Percy, a young man of ~ year
made safe trip through Whirlpool RAJ
ids, Niagara Falls, Monday, in life DO
of his own construction. The boat
about seventeen feet long, with air char
bers at either end, in one Of which Perc
-. A. x,ovoro Tho L oa1 yyac woiOhtI